1 Kreuzer Wine, Landmark Money, Gastein-Mühlbach

The "Wine Kreuzer" of the Gastein-Mühlbach mining district was a purely localized emergency currency, issued under archbishops Franz Anton von Harrach and Jakob Ernst von Liechtenstein to address a chronic shortage of small change in the remote Gastein valley. The district's hot spring trade and salt-dependent economy ran on transactions too small for the regional silver coinage to handle efficiently. These copper pieces circulated within a tightly bounded geographic area — functionally worthless the moment they left the valley.

The Zöttl reference numbers spanning 3583–3589 reflect documented die variations across the issue's eighteen-year run, a surprisingly long production period for what was essentially a stopgap measure.